Reed-organ



(No Model.)

F. PIRANGESOHINI.

REED ORGAN.

Patented May 20, 1884.

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INVENTOR.

WITNESSES:

UNITED STATES PATENT OF ICE.

FRANK F. FRANO-ESOHINI, on PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

REED-ORGAN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 298,840, dated May 2 0, 1884.

Application filed May 16, 1883.

To ctZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANK F. FRANCES- OHINI, a citizen. of the United States, and a resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Organs and Melodeons and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making part hereof.

The nature of my invention will fully appear from the following description and claim.

It has for its object the production of a folding organ or melodeon, in several parts, which, when doubled up, can be set in a box, and carried from place to place by hand in the same manner as a valise, and when open for use the organ or melodeon can be set upon this box, the latter forming a support for the same when in use.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents my device when in use; Fig. 2, an elevation of the contiguous ends of the folding parts when the latter are folded for transportation, also showing the openings in said contiguous ends, which, when the instrument is unfolded, come opposite to each other, and permit the free passage of air from the bellows throughout the instrument; Fig. 3, a vertical cross-sectional View 011 line X X of Fig. 1 of my apparatus when set up, and Fig.4 a longitudinal vertical sectional view of the same on the line Y Y of Fig. 3 when folded for transportation.

A A are the two folding parts of the instrument containing the key-board, reeds, 8:0.

B represents the hinged joint between the two folding parts.

O C, Fig. 2, are openings in the jointed ends of the two parts A A, which openings come opposite to each other, and form an airpassage, when the parts A A are unfolded, as shown in Fig. 1.

D D are the bellows, E E the treadles, and F the pipe or air conduit conveying air from the bellows to the instrument A A. The parts A A constitute one instrument when set up as in Fig. 1.

G is the box in which the instrument when folded up is set, and which box forms the'sup- (No model.)

port or base of the instrument when the apparatus is set up as in Fig. 1.

H is a short standard or rod set upon the top of the bellows, and upon which the inner end of the treadle rests.

I confine myself to no particular form of treadle and bellows. Any of those well known in the art can be used. I wish it also to be understood that I do not claim any invention in the organ or melodeon as a musical instrument. WVhen set up as in Fig. 1, where I have shown two bellows, (see also Fig. 4,) two air-pipes, F, are used, one passing from each bellows into each of the-parts A and A above it. If no openings 0 O are employed, and each contiguous head or end of parts A and A is closed, then the treadles would have to be worked together to sustain the air-pressure in the instrument; or, having the openings O C, only one bellows might be employed, as the air would have free access to the whole instrument. The hinge B also might be substituted by hooks and staples, clamps, or bolts, which could be employed to hold the two halves or parts together when the parts are inplace, as in Fig. 1; or the two halves or parts might be joined end to-end, as shown, and their weight alone relied upon to hold them in contact; but I always employ a fast-- ening, and generally a hinge as the most convenient and least troublesome. The treadles .lie loosely upon standards H, so that when the apparatus is being transported they can be raised to close the side of the box and form part of the same. Fig. 3.)

WVhen not in use, the instrument is folded up, the air-pipes are removed, and the in strument is then placed in box G, as shown in Fig. 4, resting below on slight projections in said box, to prevent its jamming down upon the bellows. The air-pipes are then put in beside it and the top of the box covered by a lid.

Handles upon the top or side',or straps,serve as means by which the box can be carried from place to place.

\Vhat I claim as new is- An organ or similar musical instrument di- (See curved dotted lines,

or sections A A, the sections being joined when the latter is folded up, substantially as one to another by suitable connections 13,2u1d described.

box G,containing the bellows the )edals and T wind-pipe, said parts being combin ed and ar- FRANK FRANOESCHIL 5 ranged so that when set up they constitute \Vitnesses:

WVM. H. OARsoN, GEORGE E. BUOKLEY.

one instrument having a complete key-board, the box beingadaptcd to receive the air-chest 

